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Tautology Club!

I quite liked the newest xkcd:

Olivia Williams interview

In the AV Club. I don't mean this as faint praise, but she was the best thing about Dollhouse.

  

BTW: Happy Year of the Tiger!

 

(image via TIH)

Oh, Dalton...

 

Happy Valentine's weekend!

From the Golden Girls:

 
 

Tina Fey in Vogue

"Her existence is such a relief." Seeing as it's Vogue, she ends up talking a lot about fashion, but—what with this being Tina Fey—that's just fine.

 

The Republicans will not vote yes. That is, they will vote no.

Period. On everything. Dan Savage flagged this as "required viewing," and he's so right. It's a little long (~10 minutes) but absolutely worth it. You will be riveted and enraged:

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

An hilarious dissection of TV news spots

I resisted watching this for a week, then—thankfully—I finally gave in, as should you if you haven't yet:

E-mail scam: "I'm writing this with tears in my eyes,we came down here to London,England"

I believed this e-mail scam for about 10 full seconds this a.m., which is impressive given that I am such an Interweb skeptic and Snopes proselytizer. What made it so convincing was that it came directly from a friend's gmail account. Fortunately, that friend is an editorial demigod—a shining star in the grammatical firmament—so I quickly realized that even under duress, the e-mail almost certainly couldn't have come from her.

Here is the full text of the e-mail:

Hello,

I'm writing this with tears in my eyes,we came down here to London,England for a short vacation and i was mugged at gun point last night,at the park of the hotel where we lodged all cash,credit cards and phone were stolen off me,thank God we have our life and passport save.

I've been to the US embassy and the Police here but they're not helping issues at all,they asked us to wait for 3weeks but we can't wait till then.

our flight leaves in less than 3hrs from now and we are having problems settling the hotel bills.

The hotel manager won't let us leave until we settle the hotel bills. you can speak with him through this number +44 702 404 6640,we are freaked out at the moment

you can wire the money to me through western union all you need is the Name on my passport and location.

I'll def refund your cash as soon as i get home.

Man, I'm always thinking that if spammers would just spend a *tiny* amount of money on native-language proofreading, they could dramatically lower their CPA. Nefarious grammarians, feel free to steal that business idea.

Pupsters

Hipster puppies. E.g.: